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Yang Yang commented on CASSANDRA-2019:
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I'm not working on this now, please close, thanks.

> add interface to DatabaseDescriptor to help setting seeds and tokens at boot 
> time (for EC2 feature)
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>                 Key: CASSANDRA-2019
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2019
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Core
>            Reporter: Yang Yang
>             Fix For: 0.8.2
>
>         Attachments: DBdscrpt.diff
>
>
> 1)
> in the amazon EC2 environment, machines die off and more frequently, and new 
> instances are brought up more often, so even if we list out all the nodes in 
> the ring as seeds, all of these seeds may have gradually died off after some 
> time. at that time , new nodes joining won't be able to find the existing 
> ring, and will establish a new, separate ring of the same name, which is 
> wrong. 
> we have made some custom code that utilizes external systems to figure out 
> the EC2 autoscaler group, and at boot time feed this info to the new node. 
> but this requires the new node to be able to modify the seeds at boot time. 
> right now the DatabaseDescriptor only has a getSeeds() method, we would like 
> to add a setSeeds()
> 2) similarly, for the token-1  trick, we wrote code to do this automatically. 
>  the StorageService.initServer() code reads the initialToken at boot time, we 
> need to be able to modify this  at boot time. so we would like to add 
> DatabaseDescriptor.setInitialToken()
> patch attached. 
> also theoretically we could do both just by modifying the config file, but 
> that requires running a separate process before cassandra daemon starts, 
> which is not as clean.
> Thanks a lot 
> Yang

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